This season

The eminent guitarist presents a widely contrasting programme of guitar music from the classical beauty of a Mozart theme to the Spanish elegance of Torroba – via the mystery of the constellations in stunning new music by Armand Coeck.

An enlightening programme exploring the music and relationship of Gustav and Alma Mahler, including songs from the celebrated Rückert Lieder, Kindertotenlieder and folkloric Knaben Wunderhorn settings. Compiled and introduced by Finnegan Downie Dear, this programme of music and words will feature extracts from letters and diaries.

The versatile and creative young duo of cellist Zosia Jagodzinska and pianist Leo Nicholson performs a programme of much-loved solo and duo pieces including Faure’s ‘Elegy’, Britten’s Third Solo Suite and Rachmaninov’s Sonata in G minor. The programme explores how these late Romantic and 20th Century composers dealt with the difficult themes of loss, grief and depression, and ultimately triumphed.

The celebrated Fitzwilliam Quartet continue their series of late Beethoven quartets in the inspiring setting of the medieval church. The programme will include Beethoven’s own favourite, Op. 131 in C sharp minor, which Schumann described as having “a grandeur which no words can express, standing on the extreme boundary of all that has hitherto been attained by human art and imagination”.